Clip for securing plaster-boards to metal studding in partition construction.



- M. H. JESTER. CLIP FOR SECURING P LASTER E'UARDS TO METAL STUDDING IN PARTITION CONSTRUCTION. APPLIUATION FILED MAKES, 1913.

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CLIP FOR SECURING PLAS'KER-BOAEDEJTD METAL S'EULZDING I1?! EARTE'I'IGTDT CflN STEEUO'TIOIL'.

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Be it known that 1-,;Mssvm H. JESTER, a citizen of'the United; States oil-Licorice, residing-in the city. and county of'Dem/er and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Clip for SecuringPlesterfioerde to Metal Stcdding in Partition Construction,

' of which the following is ospeeificetion.

My invention relates to an improved metallic clipthct is adapted to be used with metallic studdingend plaster hoards as a skeleton well or sugport forfplastering gciaterii ls in constructing plastered partition wells in buildings. f

e. Qb' of my in entio er First Toip s vl a heap n 'si p e Cl p o curir gfqlaster boards to metal stndding and particu crly toiehannel ban studs; gSecond. To provide 1a clip that can be folded by h worlnnen ierm d he tud, th s. e abling any number of clips to be secured in fposi iocon. he. e u fl i s t ne ssery to support plaster boards of difi'erent thicknesses.- And third, To rovide a clip a when mounted Q'st i c d gether, and the opposite sides scp'port each other-and prevent the wingsbeing bent backward beyond their normal right-angled osition. l I attain these: objects by the mec enism'illustrated in the accompanying drawin s, in which: v I

figure 1 is a perspective View of one ofmy newclips mounted on echannel bar. stud and adapted tobe used to support plaster boards of about a quarter of, onlihch in thickness. jFig. 2 is a top ,view of Fig. 1.

FigJS is a perspective; view of my improved clip arranged and adapted to be usedtosupport plaster hoards of. abogt three-qi mrters of inch in thickness. Fig. i is a top View of Fig. 3. ,Fig. 5 is a plan view-oi outlet blankclip as it is punched out of ribbon iron opsteel, Fig. 6 is top=view of the fiatblank clifpe's it is bent by the operator a'roimde channehhar; Fig.5 is eiront ele- I vat'ion of a portion of a plaster board partit ionshowing the epplioetion of my new clip to netell studs ,to siipport the plcster boards in skeleton :pertition: formfreeldy to receive the'plasteringmaterials. And Fig. 8 .is a yiew of the clip as it is first best by dies after it is'stcmped out into a fiat blank,

ar dj'epresents the 1 form which is shipped in large humbers to contractors.

Specification of Letters Patent.

inch channel has, as

Application filed. March 369, 1M3. Serial No. 751594.

Similar ietters of reference refer to simiiill parts throughout the severel views;

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a metal stud, preferably echenf' side 'ofthese wings a yoke portion 3 extends,

which is made long enoiigh and of a Width 1 f F to at over the S1Z8 Q I channel her I orderaol'y use, which is rireferahly thre'erquarters n zrkes What Item :2 2 inch plastered p '1"- titi'on when -plasterhoards of either '0 equarter or three-quarters of an inch inrthic'k mess are used. At the junction of thesides of the yoke portion with the Wing's of the this size channel bar 1 clip, tenjgqe pottions 4 and 5 are cut free i from the opposite sides otthe-yoke portion which I term the lockiiig lugs. These tongue sha'ped locking logs are bent to stand parallel with the Wings and to-extend from opposite sides of the extreme lower end portion of the yoke portion of the clips acrossv the open space between these ends and close it-when the clip-is folded around the channel her each tongueshaped locking lugheinglong enoughtc-extend preferably L half Way-across the open spaoe and they are positioned opposite-to each other so that their ends preterahly abut together or nearly so wheh-the clip is manually folded around a channel. her by an operator, as will he presently-described. I prefer that these locking-logs shell come together so that their ends-either meet or come close to it when the clip is folded around a channel her With-its Wings at right angles to the i yoke portion of the clip in position to recewethe iplaster boerd and thus act as a stop to bending the wings back beyond the 1 right angular plane to the yoke portion-they belongin, to receive-and act as an abutment support for the plaster boards-es shown'in Fig-2, inw hich these-locking logs are shown abutting tcigether at the-same time the wings are-Jet-ri'ght aii'gles tothe sides ofthe yoke portion and-ore iii a horizontal plane with i V the quarter inch-plasterboard keyed by the nailfiet against the wings;- J

{The closedeedof-the yokwpostion -cfithe clip is provided with an aperture 6, in Fig;

oftho closed top of the yoke portion of the clip so that the same blank form. shown in 1 along the side orcorner edges 1 which is placed therein to get rid of some of the met Fig. 6 will always bend easily at these cor;

ner ed eswhen the semi-blank form of Fig: 1, 2, and 6.

Fig. 3, I illustrate a clip provided' with ,a slot 7 along each side edge of the closed top portion of the oke of the clip. These slots not only faci itate the final accurate bendin movement, of the clips across a channe .bar at these corners, but these corner slots are necessarily placed at the corners of the top side ed es when plaster boards ofthrce-quarters 0? an inch in thickness are used instead 01" the single aperture inv the top, as shown in Fig. 1, as it is impossible to insert a keying nail 8 through the channel bar when plaster boards of this thickness are used, as the plaster boards are a trifle thicker than the height of the oke portion of the clip and they cover the c annel bar, and these side edge slot apertures enable me to raise the central portion of the closed top end of the yoke and into a loop of metal that is arranged and adapted to form the housing band 9 for a keyin nail 8 which in Figs. 1 and 2 is inserted t rough apertures punched in the channel bar below the clips, as shown in my issued Patent Number 1,001,146,--issued to me August 22, 1911, in whichconstruction and arrangement of clips and chamiel bars, plaster boards of a quarter inch in thickness are used. I preferably, however, in order to facilitate the bending of the clip at the side edges of the narrow central portion of it that is closed over one edge and the sides 'of the stud, pro vide this central portion with a concavoconvex crease or groove '10, adapted to be placed against the edge of the channel bar when the clip is placed against it and bent around its edge and against its sides, as shown in Figs. 8 and 6. In Fig. 6, however, this concavo-convex groove is not present as it flattens out and disappears when the clip, as illustrated in Fig. 8, is laid with the point 11 of thc concavo-convex groove or crease against the edge of the channel bar and the clip is bent or folded toward the sides of the channel bar as shown in Fig. 6, in which it will be seen that this concavo-convex crease or groove has disappeared. It operates to a make the clip bend positively at the side edges of the center aperture 6 or in line with the side edge apertures 7 but as it disappears when the clip is fully bent or folded around the channel bar, it is not illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, 4, and (5.

The operation of my new manually folded clip is as follows: The blank clip is first stamped, punched or cut out of ribbon. iron or steel, into a fiat blankas shown in Fig. 5", and the lockinglugs 4 and 53 are cut rec from the metal and the aperture 6 or apertures 7 are formed in the blank. The flat with their central aperture or apertures directly overthe adjacent edge of the chaimcl bar, and bends their opposite sides backagainst the sides of the channel bar, which causes its locking lugs to extend under the op )osite ed e of the channelbar until they strike toget er, which will bend the Win blank is then placed in dies and is bent into the shape shown in Fig. 8, and the clips.

back until they stand in a plane atrig 1t angles to the sides of the oke portion of the clip, in which position t e are read to receive the plaster boards w ich are laid against them, and the keyin nails are inserted either throu h the c annel bar or through the top 0 may be. The slot or slots 0 the top closed the cli s, as the case end of the clips are positioned to permit the semi-blank clip to bend at the side corners to form a space between the sides of the yoke portion of the clips after they are folded, of ust enou h less width than the channel bar to cause t e clip to stick to the channel bar at its closed corners, which will hold the cli where it is placed and prevent it from sli in down on the channel bar.

y new and improved cli is simple in construction and can be easi y and quicklyv applied by workmen to channel bars to support plaster boards in skeleton partitions for receiving plastering materials.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A metallic clip for metallic studding and plaster board partitions, comprising a flat metal blank clip provided with an apertured central portion to enable it to be manually bent easily when applied to a stud, and provided with a free tongue portion on each side of said apertured bending portion, and having portions beyond said free tongue portions arranged to form plaster board supporting wings, said clip having means at masses and plaster board partitions, the combination of a clip having its center apertured and creased to define its bending points channel-shape, and with its tongue portions extending in alinenient with its Wing portions and standing parallel to each other and at right angles to its center apertured and creased portion. l 1 3. In a metallic clip for metallic studding ,and plaster board partitions, the combina tion of a sheet metal clip arranged to be laid against and bent or folded around a channel stud, said clip being provided with a concavo-convex crease or groove, aid crease or groove being positioned at such an intermediate portion of its ends as will leave a plaster board supporting wing on each side of it, said clip being provided with an aperture adjacent to said concaved portions, said concaved portion. being arranged to permit the central portion of said clip to bend on both sides of it and at the edges of its aperture and in a direction away from said concave-convex crease or groove, so

that said concavo-convex crease. or groove is arranged to ofter resistance to the bending of said clip at said center portion and to straighten out after the clip is bent on the edge of a stud.

4. In a metallic clip for metallic studding and plaster board partitions, comprising a U-shaped clip, having a central portion containing at its center a concaved crease'and apertures at the side of said crease, said center portion being arranged to be laid against one edge of a studand to be bent manually at its aperturedcorners, tongue portions ,freed from said center portion and arranged to standat right angles, and wing poi'tions arranged at substantially right angles tosaid center portion and extending in an opposite direction from said tongue portions, said Usliaped clip being pted in this form to be bent by an operator around a stud in position to support plaster boards. and means including a nail extending i through the apertured portions of the center of said clip for securing the plaster boards to said Wings.

In a metallic clip for metallic studding, the combination of the channel stud provided with nail receiving apertures, and

plaster boards, of a U-shaped clip provided with an apertured center portion creased to bend more readily at each side of its apertured center than at any point immediately ad acentto said apertured center when said central portion is laid against one edge of astud and the end portions of said stud are.

bent to the sides of said stud, said clip being provided with tongue portions freed from said clips at a sufiicient distance from said apertured center portion as to allow said tongue portions to be folded around the op-- posit-e edge of said stud from the edge against which it is bent, said. clip being arranged so that the cutting loose of said tongue portions from it will allow it to be wardly extending members lyi g in the,

same plane with said wing-p0 ons, and adapted to engage the rear of san stud, and means at the forward part of said stud for securing the plaster boards against said wings.

7. 5i securing device for plaster-beards, comprising a stud, a U-shaped clip adapted to surround the forward part of said stud, said clip having at its free ends outwardly and oppositely extending wing-portions and inwardly extending members lying in the same plane avith said wing-portions adapted to engage the rear of said stud, and means at the forward part of said stud for securing the plaster-hoards against said wings.

S. A securing device for plaster-boards, comprising a stud, a U-shaped clip adapted to surround the forward part of said stud, said clip having at its free ends integral outwardly and oppositely extending wingportions and integral inwardly extending tongues lying in the same plane with said wingortions adapted to engage the rear of said of sain stud for securing the plaster-boards against saidwiiigs.

9. ..i securing device for plaster-boards,

stud, and means at the forward part did comprising a stud, a U-shaped clip adapted to surround the forward part of said stud,

said clip having at its free ends outwardly r to surround the forward part of said stud,

elite being bent away said clip having at its free ends oiitwardly and opYositeiy extending wing-portions and inward y extending tongues adapted to engage the rear of said stud, said clip having its closed end slitted-along two lines, the

' {)ortion of the clip between said slits being mitwnrdiy end oppositely extending wingpertions tongues on said clip adapted to 'e the rear of said stud, said clip haveide of its closed. end slitted along mi lines the metal between said from the clip to form 9. keyway, and a key passing horizontally two v e1 through said keyway and adapted to engage the piaster-boards on each side of the ob to secure said piaster-boards against wmge 12" A clip for plaster-boards, having a body-portion adapted to be bent around the stud; said body-portion disposed ends forming when said b0 y-portion is bent around the stud wings ap toximatelyflush with the rear edge of sai stud against which the plaster-boards are secured, and having tongues in alinement with said Wings engugin the rear of the stud when said body-portion is bent a'round the stud.

In testimony whereof I efiix my signature in presence of two'witnesses.

" MARVIN H. JEST'HZR.

' \Vi tnesses:

SARGBNT Ilnmeur, ELIZABE'IH Simr'n:

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